About Rf 1.5 million approved as living allowance for Elections Commission employees

Ministry of Finance has approved the assignment of about Rf 1.5 million to the budget of Elections Commission (EC) as living allowance for EC’s employees.

Finance Minister Abdullah Jihad has confirmed this, but did not disclose any details.

Vice President of Elections Commission Ahmed Fayaz said today that Finance Ministry has granted permission to make changes to the budget and include living allowance of about Rf 1.5 million for employees.

He said that some changes to the budget have already been made, and that this will not pose any administrative difficulties for the Commission.

EC requested for living allowance from Finance Ministry subsequent to its employees going on strike following EC’s failure to pay them living allowance.